The Stranger's Epiphany

At the end of the Stranger Mersault is confronted with his fate. This causes him to change his thinking and explore thoughts he had never had before. He has to confront death and eventually accept it. When speaking with the chaplain he refuses to think about life after death and instead just sees it as something that is going to happen and he has no control over. The more he talks with the Chaplain about the god, the more infuriated he becomes. He even thinks about Maman at the end of the story, something we never saw him do very much throughout this story. He only viewed her in a small way before, never thinking about her perspective or life. Things seem to mean more to Mersault towards the end of his life. His confidence also seems to grow massively, proven by the final lines, "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."